This photo was taken just a few minutes ago while I was laying upstairs reading last week's paper.   Your yacht appears just fine on this pleasant sunny afternoon.                           A little while ago Yankee Bill sent me a kind email invitation as follows:   . . . at tonight's game, do you want to come along and watch? Pizza after.   Do you see the dastardly cunning of the man to link punishment and reward in such a way.   It doesn't occur to him that I could just go and eat pizza on it's own without having to be de-brained and tortured beforehand by being forced to watch a group of elderly men stumbling about a paddock chasing a ball.   Whilst frequently falling over and feigning injury.   As generous and tempting as the offer plainly is I think I could just stay right here at home fill a bag with cockroach spray and stick it over my head for 90 minutes.               Just while I happen to be on the subject of 'cockroaches' I can confirm that the terrifying appearance of a giant cockroach walking across my arm the other night whilst watching an equally scary movie ended thus         This fellow appeared out of nowhere and the first we've seen in over a year.   I think he's come across from the big ferry nearby that was upwind at the time in strong breezes - and he's blown directly here.   It's not really possible for a land cockroach to fly right out here.   I also cross-examined MG in case it might have come here hitching a free ride in that old timber wreck of a lifeboat he uses but he says he has none aboard his yacht.   So I suspect that it's another rare instance like last year when we had that giant crane barge tied nearby. No doubt our lights at night are appealing.   You can tell that he had not been in contact with people as he was stupid in his cavalier approach to us.   He was dispatched immediately and we've seen no sign of anything else.   If there was anything else here Penny would know immediately - because she can sniff them and on the couple of occasions in the past 3 years - she has pointed the unusual trespasser out.   So we can safely say that there are NONE aboard. (that she or I know of - HA!)               So that's all for now     from your friends   Rodney & Penny         PS This is what Yankee Bill is trained to do if it looks like the other team is going to score.